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I have been using Mint since Mint 5...I thought Mint 7 was the best so far for what I use it for. Mostly streaming video and business programs. I first started noticing In Mint 8 trouble with flash and sound settings. Now with Mint 9 I find that flash is really crazy. With Monitors in Twinview Chrom...

I am a linux newbie. Only had Mint for about a month. Here is the fix that I found to be easiest for myself and it works without any problems. I noticed that after changing Nvidia settings the program was not able to update the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. So what I do is this: I change my settings so t...

Thanks very much. I have a good headset. I will try a usb adapter for it first.

Again thank you

I have had Mint now for about a month. I installed it on my P3 system and it worked great even with skype/ A couple days ago I finally bought the last pieces for a new system. It has an AD1986A Sound Max onboard audio. And like most people here and in ubuntu forums it works great except that my mike...

Thanks very much. I am still trying to figure it out. I moved to mint from win xp . In xp it just looks for mouse movements. If no mouse movements anything can be running and power management still puts em to sleep.

I have had linux mint for about 2 weeks and mostly works great. I have Nvidia geforce 6200. I have my monitor set to go off in 11 minutes to test it. Ii have dual monitors. It shuts down on time if i am doing absolutely nothing at all. But if something like totem is streaming audio from the BBC the ...

Thanks for the reply. A guy in town is building machines from old parts and he has a legal master install cd for win xp pro. I bought my machine for $100.00. 192mb pc 100 ram and 10g hard drive. I upgraded it a little at a time. Pentium III 550 Mz 80g hard drive running at sytem speed ATA66 768 mb p...

I just switched to Mint a couple days ago with a cd I bought online mint 4.0 with gnome. It is great I only use xp now for one thing. My problem is that when I install a package with Synaptic and the name dosnt make it to the menu. I use synaptic to tell me where it installed the files. Then I go lo...